Bunnell, Peter C. The Robert O. Dougan Collection of Historical Photographs and Photographic Literature at Princeton by Peter C. Bunnell.

Art Museum, Princeton University, 1983. About three dozen illustrations of 19th century photography by William Henry Fox Talbot, James Robertson, James Wallace Black, John Moffatt, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Frith, Hill and Adamson, Oscar Rejlander, John Thomson, John Adams Whipple, et al. List of 211 items in Princeton's portion of the Dougan collection, other portions of which are at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Fine. Summary:

Published by the Princeton University Art Museum, The Robert O. Dougan Collection of Historical Photographs and Photographic Literature at Princeton catalogues a foundational portion of a major acquisition of 19th-century photographic art and history.

Key Highlights of the Publication and Collection

• Assembled by Scottish-born librarian and collector Robert O. Dougan beginning in the 1930s, the broader collection comprised roughly 1,000 masterworks of early European and American photography dating from 1842 to 1870.

• Acquired via Warner Communications, the comprehensive collection was intentionally divided among three major American institutions to complement their strengths: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Princeton University.

• While the art museums received the bulk of the rare photographic prints and albums, Princeton University specifically took custody of the collection's rare photographic literature, technical manuals, treatises, and illustrated handbooks to support its academic focus on the history of photography.

• Bunnell's publication details roughly 211 specific items allocated to Princeton. It features dozens of illustrations and highlights seminal 19th-century figures represented across the wider collection—such as William Henry Fox Talbot, Hill and Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Francis Frith, and John Thomson.